Super rich Bill Gates have give £1 million to the Universty of Edinburgh in Scotland to help research childhood pneumonia, something that kills millions of young children every year. The money will be used to help...
" Mathematicians are perplexed after a highly complex crop circle appeared in a Wiltshire field - depicting a fundamental mathematical symbol. The circle is, apparently, a coded image representing a complex...
""Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt"--Washington Post headline, November 2, 1922. If there was any doubt that fear-mongering has long been...
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I'm fond of pointing out that I'm terrible at math, but this New York Times article (excerpted on freerepublic.com) confuses the heck out of me. It's about how it's mathematically certain that either men or women...
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Ever watched Star Trek and dreamt what it would be like to disappear into thin air? Two mathematicians are claiming that cloaking devices may not be so far fetched after all.